… but probably not. * Like, if you get out of prison in time.

The Hanshin Tigers, that is. 6-1: At Kyocera Dome, Shigenobu Shima went 3-for-4 to lead a 16-hit attack and Kenta Maeda got his first win since June 29, lifting Hiroshima over Central League-leading Hanshin. Hiroshima got on the board in the first inning on a fielder’s choice grounder by Kenta Kurihara and made it 2-0 [...]

Or, as the translated story puts it, “Eight times, hammering a reversal.” Indeed. Revelers in Hiroshima’s infamous なま臭いマイル (“The Fishy Mile”) district celebrated the glorious victory by pouring into the streets in groups as large as three people. Several chants of “Go Carp” were briefly heard, and in a moment of high-spirits, a happy fan [...]

Jeff Pearlman has a new book coming out in September called Boys Will Be Boys, which chronicles the Cowboys during the Aikman-Smith-Irvin glory years. Tucked inside the book is a chapter called “The Last Naked Warrior,” which is a nickname defensive end Charles Haley used for himself. Haley, if you recall, was a goddamn beast [...]

The Yakult (Spitzor) Swallows bribed their way to a 2-0 win over the Carp today. The umps were blind, the sun was in their eyes, and the ball kept on taking funny hops. Ultimate 100% revenge power is destiny for Swallows! Apparently the Carp has hired a team of sexologists to help them with personal [...]

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From the Wikipedia entry on the Yokohama BayStars: Originally, the team was going to be renamed the Yokohama Whales, but new restrictions on whaling convinced the company to drop the original name. Some superstitious fans had believed that dead whales put a curse onto the team, (the Maruha Corporation was famous for its whale meat [...]

Not much Carp news at the moment because of the All Star break. The Carp’s division, Central, beat those assholes from the Pacific division 11-6 in front of the crowd in Yokohama. Yes, that Yokohama, where the talentless bozos of the Baystars play for their red ParticipACTION pin every season. UPDATE: A brief explanation of [...]